Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 28 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 100 18 51
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 13.21% 5.29% 11.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 20.00% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 15 43
10th Percentile £316 £481 £217
25th Percentile £403 £498 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -6.78% +1.51%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £640
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.30% - -4.76%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 300 90 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 39.63% 26.47% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 61 101
10th Percentile £313 £375 £388
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £537 £614 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £38.43 £34.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +12.20% +71.25% -11.11%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +8 96 £482 -12.36% 42
Doncaster - 3 £413 - 6
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) CICS
3 2 (2.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (68.00%) AWS
2 60 (60.00%) GCP
3 14 (14.00%) OpenShift
4 13 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 9 (9.00%) Azure AKS
6 9 (9.00%) SaaS
7 8 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.00%) GitHub
10 4 (4.00%) Akamai
10 4 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.00%) Cloudflare
11 3 (3.00%) OneDrive
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.00%) ChatGPT
12 2 (2.00%) Collibra
13 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.00%) Firewall
2 5 (5.00%) VPN
3 4 (4.00%) DNS
3 4 (4.00%) HTTP
3 4 (4.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (3.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (2.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.00%) LAN
5 2 (2.00%) NAS
5 2 (2.00%) Network Security
5 2 (2.00%) SAN
5 2 (2.00%) SSL
5 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.00%) VSAN
5 2 (2.00%) WAN
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.00%) FCoE
6 1 (1.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.00%) Power BI
2 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.00%) MySQL
4 5 (5.00%) Metadata
4 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.00%) DataStage
6 2 (2.00%) DB2
6 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (22.00%) Jenkins
1 22 (22.00%) JIRA
2 15 (15.00%) Postman
3 12 (12.00%) GitLab
4 10 (10.00%) Selenium
4 10 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 6 (6.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.00%) REST Assured
6 5 (5.00%) Git
6 5 (5.00%) TestRail
7 3 (3.00%) JUnit
8 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.00%) TestNG
8 2 (2.00%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (1.00%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (43.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Finance
3 16 (16.00%) Banking
4 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.00%) Law
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.00%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (14.00%) Developer
2 13 (13.00%) Analyst
3 12 (12.00%) Architect
4 10 (10.00%) Lead
5 9 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Test Analyst
7 7 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.00%) Consultant
9 5 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Product Owner
10 4 (4.00%) Senior
11 3 (3.00%) 2nd Line Support
11 3 (3.00%) Lead Test Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.00%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) REST
2 14 (14.00%) LDAP
3 12 (12.00%) OpenID
4 8 (8.00%) Regular Expression
5 7 (7.00%) .NET
5 7 (7.00%) Hugging Face
5 7 (7.00%) OAuth
5 7 (7.00%) OpenCV
5 7 (7.00%) PyTorch
5 7 (7.00%) SailPoint
5 7 (7.00%) SAML
5 7 (7.00%) SpaCy
5 7 (7.00%) TensorFlow
6 6 (6.00%) JSON
6 6 (6.00%) Middleware
7 4 (4.00%) RESTful
7 4 (4.00%) XML
8 3 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.00%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (2.00%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (11.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.00%) IoT
5 3 (3.00%) Replication
5 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.00%) Clustering
6 2 (2.00%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.00%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.00%) FMCG
7 1 (1.00%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Linux
2 6 (6.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Solaris
3 2 (2.00%) VMS
3 2 (2.00%) zOS
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) CentOS
4 1 (1.00%) MVS
4 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.00%) DevOps
2 44 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (31.00%) Agile
4 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (18.00%) Roadmaps
5 17 (17.00%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.00%) Identity Access Management
5 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (15.00%) API Testing
7 15 (15.00%) DevSecOps
7 15 (15.00%) Migration
8 13 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (13.00%) Scrum
8 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.00%) Cloud Security
9 11 (11.00%) ETL
9 11 (11.00%) Security Testing
10 10 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.00%) Python
2 19 (19.00%) Java
2 19 (19.00%) SQL
3 6 (6.00%) Bash
3 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.00%) PHP
4 4 (4.00%) Groovy
4 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.00%) C#
5 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (11.00%) ISTQB
2 10 (10.00%) CISM
2 10 (10.00%) CISSP
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.00%) CEH
4 3 (3.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.00%) GIAC
4 3 (3.00%) GWAPT
4 3 (3.00%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.00%) CCA
6 1 (1.00%) CCSK
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) GDPR
2 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.00%) NIST
3 7 (7.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (13.00%) Docker
2 11 (11.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.00%) KVM
5 2 (2.00%) NFS
5 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.00%) vSphere
6 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.00%) Ceph
6 1 (1.00%) QEMU
6 1 (1.00%) SRDF
6 1 (1.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.00%) Xen
6 1 (1.00%) XenApp
6 1 (1.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (25.00%) Terraform
3 17 (17.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.00%) Grafana
4 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.00%) Argo
6 2 (2.00%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) logstash
7 1 (1.00%) Podman
7 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) Google
3 14 (14.00%) F5
4 8 (8.00%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (8.00%) CyberArk
4 8 (8.00%) Thycotic
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle
5 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.00%) VMware
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco
7 4 (4.00%) Imperva
7 4 (4.00%) NetApp
7 4 (4.00%) SAP
8 3 (3.00%) EMC
8 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.00%) Alibaba
9 2 (2.00%) Databricks
9 2 (2.00%) Delphix
9 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.00%) Splunk